Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-01

with the German Baptist Conference Of |
TeX=s, and through th-iE assistance We
have been doing good work anon }
them. There are not far from $50 600 or
POO, GOO Germans in Texas, and they GER
tainiy deserve that evangelical effort
should be pat forth amop5 them. It's
is & most particular part of cur wor5,2ad
should be managed with great care.
There ere ALSO many Norwegiaas and
SwSdee wno should have a pure Gospel
presched uato them. We have been tr7-
ing to reach some Of these people through
English preaching, but it dss been te-
dious and difficult. We hope an o0eu
door Will soon be SCI for US 70 enter
more successfully on this work
AFRICAN MISSIONS.
This department hes been q signal sue
cess. With Elder j. r. Griggs a. SUI
peri1tepdent of Missions, the work has
steadily progressed from the beginning
until now. During the year they have
employed not less than tWenLy-s,X mis-
sionaries and collected, IS our report
shows, 1881 -, They hSye Baptized
nearly 1905 people When we consider
that tnere are over 400, 900 colored people
in TtXas, that only about 90 900 OF them
are B4ptists, and that all Of them ore
inclined to be Gnd would be Baptists had
they lair opportunity, We begin TO see
the responsibility that rests uDJn ue.
We cannot afford TO retrench on this
work.
CITY MISSIONS.
We have not done so much Of this kind
OF labor this year as we would Wish. In
Houston, Galveston, Dallas, Denison,
FexaTkeua, Laredo, III Paso, Clarks- Tile.
Eagle Pass and Hearlett& we have ecu
dong something n this direction. But
most fruitful fields have been left uaoc
cupied for lack Of means. THIS work pays
better than any other kind When
we remember thai cur most
useful churches now support
ing the mission cause were once mission
stations, we begin TO see row it pays to
spend money in this direction. The large
churches at Dallas, Galveston, Houston,
Waco, Fort Worth, Wea:herford, Adj
Jene, Colorado, sud numbers Of others
were started By missionary effort. aside
from all this, it is eminantly sCr;ptural o
do work OF tsis sort. Paul seems to have
mad an eye TO the cities, and we see MIN
going to Antioch, Pall}ippi, Tnessalonics,
Athens, Ephesus and Rome, il eQcn Of
which places he established the cause.
| Cities are centers Of population, wicked
ness, intelligence, influence and power,
and we should take especial pains % evan
g4l.Ze them.
COLPORTAGE FEATURE.
We made en- especial arrangement with
! the A. B. ?. S TO furnish us With such
Docks as our missionaries might need,
and wait until they were sold before they
were to be pEid for. we have thus been
enabled to supply all the books which our
missionaries could use TO advantage, not
oaIy without cost to us, but with profit TO
the missionaries, who usually made %
per cent. on the books handled. We be
lieVe each missionary should 60 armed
and equipped with such literature IS will
best assist him in his work.
DESTITUTION.
Eighty-fve counties in our state are
almost, il not entirely, destitute Of
gospel privileges. We have yet $50, 600
square miles of solid desGItution. We
have, in tact, the frontier OF the entire
south on our hands. The Rio G7ande
touches 800 miles OF Texas frontier, and
We have.onIy two mission Stations along
It's whole length.
In the year before US we should put
200 active missionaries at work, and we
should arrange for this st the sitting OF
this convention. Our resources are
abundant. We have only beer halls trying
There ere 10000 white Baptists III the
state.
The report was adopted. On motion
Of J. B. Hsrdwick Tonight was set fer 8
special missionary mass meeting.
Adjourned TO meet e. 80.
} AFTERNOON SESSION.
Convention called to order at 23C
o'clock by moderator. Sopg by the choir
Prayer by Rev. a. n. Seal
Committee to nominate trustees fOl
Baylor college recommended the follow
ing as trustees for the ensuing year: c
r Breedlove, TuiiY Choice, a. w. Dunn
II. G, Darlington, Il I. Hanks, A. j. Hal
riS, F. NJ. Law, w. r Maxwell, c. c
/, Slaughter, r j. SIedge, NJ. V. Smith
George West and George Ysrb!augh. Tlf
} renort was adopted.
Report Of trustees OF Baylor University
was submitted by DR.. 3. Il. Carroll Of
Waco, president Of the board. Rev. 5
L. Morris, financial secretary OF the
! university, submitted his report IN cor
: neCtion with Dr.. C4rrOlI's report. B0ti
; reports were adopted.
, Dr.. Carroll addressed the convention
} or tce SuOltct OF the Baylor University
He says the present board OF trustee:
have conducted the institution on {
strictly business plan. He says naarl1
: every boy and girl who enter the Bsylol
< University, if they are not con
verified when they enter, they become
converted b, fore they leave. He aHt.ci
. pates heavy endowment fund for tint
University in the near future.
Dr. BurlesoD made snort talk il be
2 half OF BsylOr University.
/ Rev. d. Y. B1gby made motion that thC
( collection to psy for the furniture in Bay
: Tor University be tsken Nd at 10 0'Cloci
r tomorrow morning. Motion carried.
e Committee TO nominate bssrd of di
! rec&ors for Baylor University reported
the following names as member
of the board OF directors for the en1uiu
year: 3. II Carroll, John DYER, ". Nj
e jenkins, 81 H. Stsndifer, j. s. Allen,
e f Perher, 0. J. Ho!bert, a Goddard, "
| r. Kelum, A. ". Dunn, R. J. Siedge, W
5 B. benson, ". II. Prsther. Report va
. adopted,
5 Report of trustees Of Baylor Femsl
j College was presented by Rev. K. \
: Yates. Dr.. J Il. Luther, president c
| 70 -. L.